All Entries in the "Diversity" Category
Hoop Dancing, Heard Museum, and Hampton, VA
The Heard Museum World Champion Hoop Dancer competition which “draws together top Native hoop dancers from throughout the United States and Canada ” was amazing. According to the Heard brochure, “(The hoop) is symbolic to all Native people. It represents the Circle of Life and the continuous cycle of summer and winter, day and night, male and [...]
African Native Americans
An important group of men and women has been left with no box to check in the 2010 Census: Native Americans with African origins. The 2010 Census provides us with boxes to check for gender – male, female, other questions, and race. Question #8 asks “Is the person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin?” and offers 4 boxes of [...]
AAHSA & ABHOW Advocate Making Homes For Your Mother & Fathers
Get involved in aging- yours and others. Advocating, working, and serving in the industry for the aging is rewarding work and because I (Dr. Joel Martin, the one in the middle) am an aging Baby Boomer, there is a bit of a self-serving aspect to it. My sphere of influence is the ABHOW Corporate [...]
Respectful Aging LGBT Services
Loree Cook-Daniels delivered a comprehensive tutorial on respectfully serving the aging LGBT populations at the annual conference of AAHSA. She has a wealth of information on her website. Here are some of the points she made and there were more available. Respect is a must for everyone and in any situation:
Use the client’s terms: Reflecting [...]
What does Diversity look like today?
This is a pause for the cause – a different way of viewing the dimensions of diversity. Diversity, it has often been said, goes beyond race and gender. It includes generations, race, gender, organizational diversity, nationality, culture, recreational habits, personality and more. At the heart of it, regardless of their dimensions, is a human being [...]
Race Relations and the Illusion of Difference
Like Katrina, the faltering economy has placed everyone in the same boat and in some parts of the United Stat es this has served to break up some racial barriers. Very few families have been able to the escape this recession with its’ massive job loses and the devaluation of stock portfolios and property values. [...]
Gail Sheey at AAHSA: Powerful words on Caregiving
People are living longer but this does not mean they are living longer well and without the need of assistance.
What is an American?
On headlines proclaims that Keflezighi won the marathon for his “adopted country” which suggest (unintentionally) that maybe he is an American of convince, like a carpetbagger.
Create Your Tribe & Change the World
Seth Godin speaks at TED on changing the world. If there’s a challenge you think needs fixing, take the time to view this video. He outlines a perspective that makes sense in this techie world we live in. It makes sense in the human dynamic of changing the world to be a better place. And [...]
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness – Who Owns Cultural Identity?
“The film raises unsettling questions, asking who has the authority to define a culture, especially if people from that culture are denied the opportunity to engage in the scholarly discourse of defining themselves.
